Who will win the writers strike?
I have no idea who will prevail in the current screenwriters’ strike. If I have sympathy for a side, it is probably the writers, since they have some valid points, and appear to be marginally less greedy than the networks and the studios. But it really doesn’t matter who wins that battle. Because that’s not the real battle. The real question is, do we really care about TV anymore, full stop. The answer is, of course, yes, but perhaps not as much as the studios and the writers’ guild would like to believe. Because I don’t think network TV is going to be the winner here. Unlike the last strike in 1988, when folks turned to repeats of shows they hadn’t caught the last time around, now we have real alternatives. And we aren’t limited to what the networks, all gamillion of them, want to show or when they want to show it. In about four to six weeks when the current inventory of new episodes is depleted and we enter the repeat zone, we will get our first glimpse at how the social media explos
